Databases

Here you can find databases licensed for the WZB and other electronic
ressouces.

For information on WZB licensed and freely accessible databases please visit DBIS, the "Database Information System" of the University Library of Regensburg. Information on DBIS holdings in general can be found here. (german only)

17th- 18th century Burney collection newspapers

Annotation:

German-wide access provided by the DFG

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science

Language:

English

Period:

1600 - 1800

The database contains digitized eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English newspapers and pamphlets (totaling 1,270 titles) from the collection of Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The documents include parliamentary publications and daily news from London, the British empire, neighboring countries, and their royal houses or governments.

Fulltext database, Newspaper database

19th century British Library newspapers

Annotation:

German-wide access provided by the DFG

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science

Language:

English

Period:

1800 - 1900

This databank contains a representative selection from the extensive newspaper collection of the British Library. It offers full runs of 48 national and regional nineteenth-century British newspapers

Fulltext database, Newspaper database

19th century U.S. newspapers

Annotation:

German-wide access provided by the DFG

Research area:

History, Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

English

Period:

1800 - 1900

The database consists solely of the full-text English content of 500 newspapers from all U.S. states and territories. The compilation focuses on material published between 1800 and 1900 and focuses on the American Civil War, Afro-American culture and history, western immigration, and Antebellum-era life.

Fulltext database

Afghan Serials Collection

Partisan publications from the Wahdat Library

Annotation:

German-wide access provided by the DFG

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science

Language:

Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu

The database is a collection of rare newspapers and journals from different political groups from the Wahdat Library, a comprehensive private collection from Afghanistan. The collection includes over 45 titles published from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, at a critical time in the country's history.
The Afghan Serials Collection contains press reports from various political epochs and from the most diverse groups and currents that sought to shape the social and intellectual landscape at this turbulent time. They range from the Taliban to anti-Taliban rebels, anti-Soviet Jihadi and Mujahedin groups and the Afghan People's Democratic Party.
The database contains unique press materials from a crucial era that shaped not only Afghanistan and the Middle East, but the entire world. With content not collected anywhere else, the collection is a
testimony to the diverse and vibrant Afghan press and an important source for scholars and researchers in the region. The texts have been published in Persian, Pushtu, Arabic, Urdu or English.

Database, Article database

Arts & humanities citation index

This collection is an interdisciplinary database that references articles from 1,144 arts and humanities journals. It also includes articles selected from 7,000 other periodicals in the natural sciences and social sciences. It provides bibliographic and citation information for articles cited in the listed publications

bibs vs. virus | unser Angebot (DBIS Corona) of the University of Regensburg contains an overview of offers which have been made temporarily freely accessible by publishers or which temporarily extend the license offer free of charge.

The Book Citation Index contains over 40,000 (as per 2013) editorially selected scientific books (online and print editions) published since 2005 in a wide range of disciplines. 10,000 new titles are to be added each year, including volumes published as a series. As a module in the Web of Science Core Collection, the Book Citation Index adds over 13.5 million references to that collection. Among other things, it allows users to search for comprehensive bibliographic information and to display the accurate numbering of citations (in journals, conference papers, and books).

The site offers the archive data on 152 titles that have appeared with Brill Academic Publishers. The focus is on the humanities and the social sciences, international law, and selected areas in the natural sciences. Particular emphasis in the humanities lies on classical studies, theology and the history of religion, and the culture and history of the Near East.

British periodicals

Collection I & II

Art, Linguistics and Literature Science, General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science

Language:

English

Period:

1681 - 2000

The database of British periodicals contains the full-text content of 493 journals of popular science, art, and British literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries.

Fulltext database, Encyclopedia

Brockhaus Wissensservice

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

German

The Brockhaus Wissensservice centers on the Brockhaus encyclopedia online, the largest professionally edited German-language encyclopedia. Its more than 300,000 keyword entries and the content of more than 1,500 tables and synopses are constantly updated and complemented by new entries.

Covers the proceedings of conferences, symposiums, seminars, workshops, and congresses worldwide. The "Cited Reference Search" tool allows users to identify the conference proceedings that were cited most frequently.

DigiZeitschriften is a research service which offers an electronic archive of core German journals of scientific importance. These are mainly journals with a long-established tradition in their field. All magazines are available in full-text from their first year up to a so-called ?moving wall? (about 3-5 years before the current year, depending on the publication).

Drawing on the English Short Title Catalogue, the Eighteenth Century Collections Online offers access to more than 180,000 titles of books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsheets that appeared primarily in Great Britain. The e-book collection contains works on history, geography, the fine arts, the social sciences, language and literature, theology and philosophy, law, medicine, natural science, and technology. Nearly 40 million pages are available for full-text searches with simple and advanced search criteria.

Fulltext database, Newspaper database, Article database

Eighteenth century journals

Newspapers & periodicals 1685- 1815

The collection has the full texts of more than 150 popular eighteenth-century periodicals published in Great Britain. The journals were drawn from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and from the sources at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The issues selected for digitization were those not already contained in Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), or Early English Newspapers.

Fulltext database, Factual database

ELFI- Servicestelle für elektronische Forschungsförderinformationen

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

German

Period:

1998 -

ELFI is the electronic information brokerage system that centrally supplies institutions of higher education throughout the German-speaking area with current details on opportunities to acquire research funding. It contains information on the modalities of acquiring funds (e.g., support programs, prices, fellowships, and the financing of material and travel costs) as well as details about 3,700 national and international funding institutions and about more than 8,000 research funding programs (link to the original source of information, leaflets, and forms can be downloaded directly). Each funding possibility is accompanied by a abstracts, addresses, contact persons, submission deadlines, and amount of funding. Users may call retrieve on more than 256 research disciplines and 35 interdisciplinary themes. The initial use of the database requires registration, to which one proceeds by clicking on the link "Einstieg in die Recherche." The information pages and certain services on offer are available even without registration.

Elsevier offers its journal archive in subject-related collections. The national license contains approximately 1,500 titles.

Fulltext database, Encyclopedia

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Academic edition

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

English

Britannica.com, a search and directory site featuring Encyclopædia Britannica, the Web's best sites, news, magazines and more. Additionally, Britannica premium service provides exclusive member access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Membership also includes access to research tools, Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia-all in an advertising-free environment.

Fulltext database, Reference book

Encyclopedia of social measurement

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

English

Access the full text of this leading encyclopedia (via ScienceDirect website) which contains more than 300 articles on the theory, history and technqiues of gathering and analysing data in the Social Sciences. Topics covered include research design, analytical techniques, data collection, the handling of datasets, measurement models and data interpretation.

Financial Times historical archive

Annotation:

German-wide access provided by the DFG

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, Economics

Language:

English

Period:

1888 - 2010

The Financial Times Historical Archive contains the complete content of all printed issues of the Financial Times from 1888 through 2010. It also has the supplements entitled Financial Times Magazine and How to Spend It. Full-text searches can be used with all the content. The statistics and tables therein can be exported and downloaded. Each issue can be searched separately.

Fulltext database, Newspaper database

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

F.A.Z.-Corporate

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

German

Period:

1993 -

The access is daily updated and includes all articles from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung since 1993, the online articles from FAZ.NET since 2001, the articles from the magazines F.A.Z.-Woche, Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly and Frankfurter Allgemeine Metropol since 2016 as well as the article from the digital offer F.A.Z. Objection since 2017.
"FAZ-Seiten" take you to the pages in the newspaper layout.

Statistics, Factual database

Genesis-Online

GENESIS-Online is a statistical information system jointly developed by the Germany's federal and state statistical bureaus. Permitting metadata-aided research, it gives access to the wide range of official statistics relating to areas, population, gainful employment, and elections; education, social transfers and social services, health, and law; housing and the environment; economic sectors; foreign trade, business, and crafts; prices, wages and salaries, income, and consumption; public finances; and resource accounting.
All individually tailored tables in the database are available free of charge. Extensive tables with several million values can be stored and updated in a personal user account after registration. A free API (web service interface) is available for further use of the machine-readable data.

Portal, Newspaper database, Fulltext database

Genios

Annotation:

Free overview search, fee-based fulltexts

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science, Sociology

Period:

1983 -

The information offered by Genios encompasses more than 1,300 databases, 340 daily and weekly newspapers, 140 million details about businesses, 800 professional journals, 20,000 e-books, 270,000 market studies, and 3 million details about individuals.

The joint union catalogue (GVK) is the freely accessible section of the union database K10plus of the GBV and the SWB. The OLC are also accessible via this database. The OLC contain more than 48.8 million articles from more than 27,900 journals. Since its publication in 1993, this database has included tables of contents of journals of all disciplines with a special focus on the natural sciences. It is supplemented weekly with articles from more than 8,700 journals of different libraries. The Joint Union Catalogue (GVK) contains over 72.6 million titles with more than 183.0 million proofs of ownership of books, journals, articles, congress reports, microforms, electronic documents, data carriers, music, maps, etc. from approx. 1,110 GBV and SWB libraries. In addition, the journal references of all subito delivery libraries from Germany and Austria as well as other German university libraries are included.

Journal citation reports

Social sciences edition

Web of science

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Political Science

Language:

English

Period:

2003 -

Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you the: most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, the hottest journals in a field, the leading journals in a field, the most published articles in a field.

JSTOR offers access to the full-text versions of predeminantly anglo-american journals starting with the first volume up to the so-called 'moving wall'. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. The WZB license agreement with JSTOR includes access to the following collections:
The Arts & Sciences I Collection (119 titles), the Arts & Sciences II Collection (125 titles) and the Business Collection (47 titles).

Fulltext database, Bibliography

Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender Online

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, Science

Language:

German

The database has the names and dates of more than 78,000 living and about 9,500 deceased scholars of German-speaking academic institutions. It lists their key biographical details, addresses, information on their focuses and fields of research. It also contains extensive bibliographical material, including a selection of the most important publications in journals, collective volumes, and encyclopedias.

This resource is an electronic archive of the Mary Ann Liebert publishing company. It offers 59 journal titles from the fields of medicine, process engineering, technology and engineering science, biotechnology, and food technology.

Bibliography, Reference book

Munzinger Online

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Munzinger Online consists of several databases: Persons (International Biographical Archive, containing more than 28,000 biographies), countries (Internationales Handbuch - Länder aktuell), Sports (International Sport Archive, with more than 10,200 biographies), Pop Music (Pop-Archiv International describes the major events in the life and career of each named artist, musical origins and orientation, and successes and flops), Time Lines (synopses of countries and topics), Memorial Days (the archive on days of remembrance relating to a broad array of biographical, historical, and cultural information), and Film (Infobase Film contains all cinematic reviews that have appeared in film-dienst since 1992).

Fulltext database, Article database

The nation archive

Annotation:

German-wide access provided by the DFG

Research area:

Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

English

Period:

1865 - 2010

The Nation Archive contains the complete full-text issues of The Nation from its first issue of 1865 to 2010. As the oldest continuously published weekly periodical devoted to politics and culture, this publication has shaped critical opinion and development in the United States and elsewhere for 143 years.

Factual database, Reference book

Der neue Fischer Weltalmanach

Research area:

Political Science, Geography, General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

German

This reference work on current events provides information on politics, business, the environment, and culture in all countries of the world. It includes a glossary, country comparisons, and data on states and individuals.

Fulltext database, Newspaper database

Nexis Uni (früher LexisNexis)

Articles from several thousand magazines, periodicals and newspapers are contained in the archive as well as daily updated in full text, e.g., Berliner Zeitung, Financial Times (London), The Independent, Le Monde, New York Times, NZZ Folio, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Der Tagesspiegel, Die TAZ, The Times. The World, The Time.
Not included: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Handelsblatt, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wall Street Journal.
Nexis Uni also contains: company and financial information, information on business, politics and current affairs, economic analyses, country reports and legal information (US, UK and EU law and law of other countries such as Australia, France, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Argentina).
Search help:
The source search is in the large search line above. The selected source is displayed on the left.
Select multiple sources: You use the "advanced search", there you search in the field source for the newspaper or source you want to have - always write in one and select it and then write in the next and select it.
You get a list of all sources: Nexis Uni Content Listing Key-Excel version.
https://www.lexisnexis.com/doc/nexisuni/Nexis%20Uni%20--%20Content%20Listing%20--%20February%202019.xlsx
If you copy a newspaper link from the list and call it up, the source is set as a filter.
Note: you can only download 100 documents at a time. This is not done by selecting "print e.g. 1-130", but by selecting the documents of one page, then selecting the documents of the next page, etc. until you reach 100 documents. Then you can download the documents. Then you can repeat the process for the other documents. Increasing the result display: You can register to make individual settings such as increasing the number of hits per page.
Click on SignIn / Register at the top right of the page and create a user ID.
If you are logged in to Nexis Uni with your user ID, you will see the name you have assigned in the upper right corner of the screen and, using the pop-up function, also "Settings".
Here you can increase the number of hits up to 50 per page.
You can set up alerts when you are logged in: perform a search, then click on the bell next to "Results for...", enter your email address at the "Deliver" tab (scroll down), create an alert.

Fulltext database, Article database

NWB Rechnungswesen digital

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

German

Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database

OECD iLibrary

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Educational Research, Law

Language:

English

Period:

1961 -

The OECD iLibrary includes all OECD books published since 1998. That means, a total of 8.330 books in PDF format with an additional 300 books annually. Over 20 OECD magazine series in PDF format, dated from 1961. All new releases will be included in the collection. Direct access to 23 OECD statistical databases.
The IEA databases are not included.

In OLC you have access to over 40,8 million articles from over 25.870 scientific periodicals. They are updated daily and supplemented weekly with the tables of contents of more than 10.000 periodicals from Special Subject Collections. Please press 'availability' to see if a journal in your result list is in the wzb-library.

Periodicals Archive Online offers the back issues of electronic journals on culture, the humanities, and the social sciences. This resource encompasses more than 700 periodicals, totaling over 3 million articles (15 million pages). The license covers collections 1 through 6.

This index of historical periodicals facilitates bibliographical research in approximately 4,800 journals in the arts, humanities, and social science in one user interface. It covers the period from 1739 to 2000 and gives access to publications in over 37 specialized areas and more than 40 languages and dialects.

Article database with several million title references from all areas of natural sciences, medicine and engineering from more than 8,800 evaluated journals;
Type of references: bibliographical information with references cited in the referenced publications. Weekly increase: approx. 17,000 references.
With the Cited Reference Search a citation analysis is possible.

Database, Article database

Social sciences citation index

Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 2,474 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. This database is part of Web of Science.

The archive contains the full texts of more than 1,050 periodicals of the Springer Publishing Company (including Kluwer), generally as of vol. 1 through the year 2002. The Lecture Notes archive, too, is available in the Springer online journal archives and dates back to 2009. It contains 3,593 volumes in the following series, from vol. 1 through the year 1996: Computer Science, Control and Information Science, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics.

Reference book, Language dictionary

Standard Dictionary Spanish

Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

English, Spanish

Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database

Statista

Corporate account

Research area:

General / Interdisciplinary, Economics

Language:

German, English, French, Spanish

Statista is a port that clusters statistical data from various institutes and sources. It offers statistics on more than 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources across 20 categories of economic activity ranging from farming to administration and social affairs.
The key content of this site consists of data that is relevant to decision-making yet both difficult to ferret out and complicated to analyze and interpret. They are drawn mostly from studies and results of current market research.
The source, date of publication, number of persons surveyed, and other available metadata on each statistic are published, so the figures can be checked on Statista. Analyses and interpretations of data sets are based on scientific criteria.
Note: The language selection not only changes the language, but also changes the content. In the selection "German", the focus is on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the selection "English" the focus is on USA, China, UK, Europe. The selection "French" and "Spanish" refers to the respective country.

As a "newspaper documenting everything", the Times from London has been offering authoritative, award-winning coverage since 1785, information on parliamentary debates, critical interpretation of facts, and a unique historical insight into the views of major reporters and editions of the respective epoch. The Times Digital Archive is an unrivaled opportunity to explore the content of one of the most popular and most frequently cited daily newspapers - online and in the respective context of the original edition.
Thanks to the full-text search and classification of each article, each issue can be searched through by keywords in the title or article text, author and subject categories. Afterwards, the article can be viewed completely and quickly on the screen as a full text or the whole page on which a requested article appears. In addition, it is possible to watch a certain issue of the newspaper from a particular day and "leaf through" it.

Fulltext database, Newspaper database, Article database

Times literary supplement historical archive

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) historical archive encompasses the full text of all TLS issues from the first number of 1902 through part of 2011. It affords a panorama of the works by prominent authors and thinkers in that period. It also contains theater, movie, music, and exhibition reviews. The database is completely searchable in full-text, including searches for anonymous articles, and has simple and advanced search criteria.

Torrossa contains approximately 1,500 monographs and congress reports of well-known Italian science publishers. These e-books address significant aspects of the humanities and the social sciences from a comparative perspective in the fields of archeology, history, classical studies, linguistics, music, philosophy, art, pedagogy, library sciences, sociology, and the study of the language and literature of Italy. A full-text search is possible across all e-books.

World Bank e-atlas of global development

The database comprises the 175 development indicators from the printed Atlas of Global Development. One can select the facts either by using the search function or by browsing topics. The data are diagrammed and presented as comparisons between countries. Users must register to export the data, but there is no charge.

Bibliography

World Biographical Information System Online

Annotation:

German-wide access provided by the DFG

Research area:

History, General / Interdisciplinary

Language:

German

The World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online) collects several million short biographies from numerous reference works published from the 16th to the early 21st century. The biographical archives included in the collection take account of different languages and cultures. Also included in WBIS Online is the World Biographical Index (WBI), which gives users access to biographical data from 57 archives.